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The Dragon Empress
Door Marina Warner
| Categorie | Geschiedenis Azië |
|---|---|
| Boeknummer | #354967 |
| Titel | The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908: Empress Dowager of China |
| Auteur | Warner, Marina |
| Boektype | Paperback |
| Uitgeverij | New York, NY : Vintage |
| Jaar van uitgave | 1993 |
| ISBN10 | 0099165910 |
| ISBN13 | 9780099165910 |
| Taal | Engels |
| Beschrijving | Paperback, small 8vo. |
| Samenvatting | From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in China. Opportunistic, ruthless, malicious, she ruled over four hundred million people. Marina Warner's biography lays bare her complex personality: her extreme conventionalism; her hatred of "foreigners"; her passion for power and intrigue; her vanity and her delight in ritual; her extravagance and corruption and her love of gardens, painting and the theatre. THE DRAGON EMPRESS also portrays a China in rapid decline as poverty, civil war and foreign exploitation and invasion brought about the fall of the Ch'ing dynasty. |
| Pagina's | 247 |
| Conditie | Goed — Edges browned. |
| Prijs | € 8,00 |
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